Attorney Irv Pinsky’s 6‑year-old client heard the “cursing, screaming, and shooting” over the intercom Dec. 14 when a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed her friends.
“You’re having a wonderful life and then the next thing you know your friends are all getting killed and you’re in danger,” Pinsky (pictured) said Friday.
That’s why he’s filed a $100 million claim Thursday on behalf of his client, Jill Doe, with state Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance, Jr.
“You’re not allowed to sue the state until you receive permission,” Pinsky explained Friday. That’s why he’s filing the claim with the claims commissioner and not a court.
The claim says that state Board of Education, Connecticut Department of Education, and state Education Commissioner failed to take the appropriate steps to protect minor children from “foreseeable harm.”
The state failed to determine “whether the Newtown Board of Education had provided a safe school setting at said school.” The claim goes onto say that Sandy Hook Elementary and the Newtown Board of Education failed to “formulate and implement an effective student safety emergency response plan and protocol.”
“As a consequence, the claimant-minor child has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined,” the claim says.